Author Topic: The Necessity Of The Virtue Of Chasity And How To Attain It (Read 2377 times)

Nishant Xavier · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2019, 12:46:26 AM »

Yes, fasting is a great means to acquire chastity or persevere in it. Best to fast at least one day throughout the year. Saints have fasted even 40 days continually like our Lord did; total fasts. We should start fasting more frequently and increase it gradually.

Another great and highly recommended by the Saints is the 3 Hail Mary's devotion. If the temptations increase, increase the prayers also, for e.g. adding a Rosary morning and night. The chief and most important thing here is to persevere faithfully in this devotion.

https://www.olrl.org/pray/threehms.shtml

Our Blessed Mother also revealed to St. Gertrude the Great: "To any soul who faithfully prays the Three Hail Marys, I will appear at the hour of death in a splendor so extraordinary that it will fill the soul with heavenly consolation."

St. Leonard of Port Maurice, the celebrated missionary, had the Three Hail Marys recited morning and evening in honor of Mary Immaculate, to obtain the grace of avoiding all mortal sins during the day or night; moreover he promised in a special manner eternal salvation to all those who proved constantly faithful to this practice. He gave this devotion of Three Hail Marys as a penance in the confessional, especially for those who were struggling with sins of impurity.

Practice: Recite morning and evening, three Hail Marys in honor of the three great privileges bestowed upon Our Blessed Mother by the most Blessed Trinity with this invocation at the end: for the morning: "O my Mother preserve me from mortal sin during this day." For the evening: "O my Mother preserve me from mortal sin during this night."

(Pope St. Pius X gave his Apostolic Blessing to this practice and the devotion was raised to an Archconfraternity by Pope Benedict XV.)

Nishant Xavier · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2019, 05:35:29 AM »

Edit: meant to say "one day per week throughout the year". Sorry for the typo and I can't modify the post. Our Lord says fasting and prayer is necessary to cast out some demons, so we can discern that by fasting and prayer, we will obtain victories over falling into sin.

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Author Topic: The Necessity Of The Virtue Of Chasity And How To Attain It (Read 2377 times)

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